Writing Advice from the Bookshelf: Billy Mernit on Theme

Excerpt from Writing the Romantic Comedy by Billy Mernit The first and foremost, most obvious rule of working with theme is that it can’t be artificially imposed on the material—or artificially expressed. . . . Actually, if you’re working with a viable theme . . . it’s already being expressed without such on-the-nose soapbox pronouncements. […]